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Fighting to Win
"Reviving the Strike" argues that workers’ only real bargaining power is their ability to stop production and, to do this, workers must fight as a class. By abandoning these tactics, unions have lost their ability to defend the working class. Explains what it will take to revive the strike and regain lost ground.
Continue reading...Read it and Revolt
4. June 2012
Autoworker Gregg Shotwell reveals how General Motors conspired with the United Auto Workers (UAW) bureaucracy to steal workers’ pensions, slash wages and shed jobs to help expand GM's global empire.
Continue reading...The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
11. March 2012
Chile showed that a challenge to class inequality in the medical system is a challenge to the capitalist system as a whole. Consequently, any serious movement for reform must prepare to fight a class war.
Continue reading...Whose World? OUR World!
17. November 2011
Whatever the shape, composition and demands of these movements, the common denominator is CLASS ANGER – the rage of the oppressed against their oppressors.
Continue reading...“Civil Wars” Misses the Mark
23. September 2011
"The Civil Wars in US Labor" chronicles the corruption, back-stabbing, power-grabbing, and opportunistic alliances that have characterized recent turf wars among American unions. Why did a generation of activists fail to democratize the unions, and what must we do differently to avoid repeating that failure?
Continue reading...How Liberals Justify Torture
19. June 2011
Just because medical professionals are asked to assist with torture does not transform the torture victim into a patient and the torture chamber into a medical consulting room.
Continue reading...No More Dictatorships: Build the Social Revolution!
12. April 2011
The American people are ruled by the biggest, baddest dictatorship of all – the US capitalist class.
Continue reading...One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics
20. September 2010
Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.
Continue reading...US Social Forum 2010 – We Need Unity in Action
5. July 2010
Capitalism is trying to solve its financial problems by attacking all workers. We can defend our rights only by fighting back as a class. “An injury to one is an injury to all” means that we must treat every battle as our own.
Continue reading...Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness
31. October 2009
America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (12)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness (8)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (7)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics? (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- POWER and Powerlessness (5)
- Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers
- Of Human Bondage: The Global Traffic in Disposable Labor
- Fighting to Win
- Read it and Revolt
- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
- The ABCs of Socialism
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- Animal Rights or Human Responsibilities?
- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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